{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "dataset": {
        "slug": "language-families",
        "title": "Language Families",
        "description": "Major language families of the world.",
        "summary": "Major language families with their principal languages and regions: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo, Austronesian, Dravidian and Uralic, plus Turkic, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Japonic, Koreanic, Nilo-Saharan, Mongolic, Quechuan, Algonquian and Eskimo-Aleut.",
        "use_when": [
            "You need to place a language in its family and region.",
            "You are comparing language groups for typology or history."
        ],
        "caveats": [
            "Some groupings are debated: Japonic and Koreanic are often treated as separate families, and the Altaic hypothesis that would link Turkic and Mongolic is not accepted by most linguists.",
            "Many languages are isolates or unclassified, such as Basque; the table lists only larger families."
        ],
        "related": [
            "morphological-processes",
            "syntactic-terms",
            "countries-capitals-asia",
            "ancient-civilizations"
        ],
        "category": "Linguistics",
        "category_slug": "linguistics",
        "tags": "linguistics,families,languages",
        "view_count": 0,
        "entry_count": 17,
        "fields": [
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "family",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Indo-European"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "major_languages",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "region",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Europe, South Asia, Americas"
            }
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "family": "Indo-European",
            "major_languages": "English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian",
            "region": "Europe, South Asia, Americas"
        },
        {
            "family": "Sino-Tibetan",
            "major_languages": "Mandarin, Cantonese, Burmese",
            "region": "East Asia, Southeast Asia"
        },
        {
            "family": "Afro-Asiatic",
            "major_languages": "Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic",
            "region": "Middle East, North Africa"
        },
        {
            "family": "Niger-Congo",
            "major_languages": "Swahili, Yoruba, Zulu",
            "region": "Sub-Saharan Africa"
        },
        {
            "family": "Austronesian",
            "major_languages": "Indonesian, Tagalog, Malagasy",
            "region": "Southeast Asia, Oceania, Madagascar"
        },
        {
            "family": "Dravidian",
            "major_languages": "Tamil, Telugu, Kannada",
            "region": "South India, Sri Lanka"
        },
        {
            "family": "Uralic",
            "major_languages": "Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian",
            "region": "Northern Eurasia"
        },
        {
            "family": "Turkic",
            "major_languages": "Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Kazakh, Uyghur",
            "region": "Anatolia, Central Asia, Siberia"
        },
        {
            "family": "Austroasiatic",
            "major_languages": "Vietnamese, Khmer, Santali",
            "region": "Southeast Asia, eastern India"
        },
        {
            "family": "Tai-Kadai",
            "major_languages": "Thai, Lao, Zhuang",
            "region": "Southeast Asia, southern China"
        },
        {
            "family": "Japonic",
            "major_languages": "Japanese, Ryukyuan languages",
            "region": "Japan"
        },
        {
            "family": "Koreanic",
            "major_languages": "Korean, Jeju",
            "region": "Korean Peninsula"
        },
        {
            "family": "Nilo-Saharan",
            "major_languages": "Luo, Kanuri, Nubian languages",
            "region": "Sahel and East Africa"
        },
        {
            "family": "Mongolic",
            "major_languages": "Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk",
            "region": "Mongolia, northern China, southern Russia"
        },
        {
            "family": "Quechuan",
            "major_languages": "Quechua varieties",
            "region": "Andes of South America"
        },
        {
            "family": "Algonquian",
            "major_languages": "Cree, Ojibwe, Blackfoot",
            "region": "North America"
        },
        {
            "family": "Eskimo-Aleut",
            "major_languages": "Inuktitut, Greenlandic, Yupik, Aleut",
            "region": "Arctic North America, Greenland, Siberia"
        }
    ]
}